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THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO SPECIAL RELATIVITY
Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can
be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev |
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Michelson-Morley not null; just say, Duh!
thus: most of Russell;'s lagubrious paradoxes are perilinguistic, lacking the element (or variable) of time; are they not? thus: of course, there is a base-one; what is it's digital counter, by induction on base-ten? in factorial base, it has n digits; eh? In base 1, the factorial n! has n! digits. [OK I realize there's no "base 1"...] thus: sea-level is not rising, globally -- http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.co...rInterview.pdf -- and warming is mostly equatorial. however, there is massive loss of soil, and that might change *relative* sea- level, in some locations, as well as dysplace some sea! thus quoth: Let’s take a look at the complexity of polar bear life. First, the polar bear has been around for about 250,000 years, having survived both an Ice Age, and the last Interglacial period (130,000 years ago), when there was virtually no ice at the North Pole. Clearly, polar bears have adapted to the changing environment, as evidenced by their presence today. (This fact alone makes the polar bear smarter than Al Gore and the other global warming alarmists. Perhaps the polar bear survived the last Interglacial because it did not have computer climate models that said polar bears should not have survived!) http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.co...polarbears.pdf http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.co...l_Warming.html thus: the photographic record that I saw, in some rather eclectic compendium of Einsteinmania, seemed to show quite a "bending" effect, I must say; not that the usual interpretation is correct, though. Nude Scientist said: "Enter another piece of luck for Einstein. We now know that the light- bending effect was actually too small for Eddington to have discerned --Another Flower for Einstein: http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.co...odynamics.html --les OEuvres! http://wlym.com --Stop Cheeny, Rice & the ICC in Sudan; no more Anglo-american quagmires! http://larouchepub.com/pr/2010/100204rice |
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Pentcho Valev wrote:
Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev |
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"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message
... Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn ...in the sense described below it can be.. and a bug can be both dead and alive: The bug can't be both dead and alive (quantum effects aside!), so if the article below is claiming this it is wrong... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." ...so no problem from either the barn owner's perspective or the runner's perspective. Or are you claiming there is some internal contradiction in the scenario? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Maybe the author of the article does not know how to resolve this, but it seems to me just another variation of the pole-barn paradox - you need to be careful that the order of events in the two frames are going to be different. (The events being the squashing of the bug and the rivet head hitting the wall. Yes - I'm sorry to have to tell you that the bug gets squashed and will be "dead", not "both dead and alive" as you seem to think! :-) Mike. Pentcho Valev |
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"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message ... Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev Once we throw out the ******** SR theories once and for all, we can do some REAL engineering leading to great and currently unbelievable products from new and correct physics. Like, asking our *viman* to take us to the moon, for a joyride. Rest upon some high mountain peak, waltz with the fish beneath the waves. Will happen, don't know when, for the relativists have all the power and money and academia and media support, still. Just saw the movie "Transformers". Now this is the very first movie where the hallowed SR crap is rightly being held for the nonsense it actually is; the hero makes a fool out of the e=mcc-breathing pompous professor. A hopeful sign! Cheers, Arindam Banerjee. Cheers, Arindam Banerjee. |
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On Feb 17, 5:24*pm, "Arindam Banerjee" wrote:
"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message ... Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE *and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev Once we throw out the ******** SR theories once and for all, we can do some REAL engineering leading to great and currently unbelievable products from new and correct physics. *Like, asking our *viman* to take us to the moon, for a joyride. *Rest upon some high mountain peak, waltz with the fish beneath the waves. *Will happen, don't know when, for the relativists have all the power and money and academia and media support, still. Just saw the movie "Transformers". *Now this is the very first movie where the hallowed SR crap is rightly being held for the nonsense it actually is; the hero makes a fool out of the e=mcc-breathing pompous professor. *A hopeful sign! Since the public are morons, this is just what they need for scientific enlightenment! Cheers, Arindam Banerjee. Cheers, Arindam Banerjee.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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"Mike Terry" wrote in message ... "Pentcho Valev" wrote in message ... Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn ..in the sense described below it can be.. and a bug can be both dead and alive: The bug can't be both dead and alive (quantum effects aside!), so if the article below is claiming this it is wrong... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." ..so no problem from either the barn owner's perspective or the runner's perspective. Or are you claiming there is some internal contradiction in the scenario? Yes. According to the algebra of the theory, moving poles stretch/expand, they do not shrink/contract. Division by something less than one will increase the quotient, 2 = 1/0.5. Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is expanded in the direction of motion, contrary to Baez's lying claim. All crackpot theoretical physicists are failed mathematicians. |
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On Feb 17, 12:25 am, "Androcles" wrote: All crackpot theoretical physicists are failed mathematicians. Pencho: Dick Vitale's prophecy has come true: And then they "8"! /No way/, right? /For the People/, though! |
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On Feb 16, 1:26*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE *and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: Wouldn't some pole traveling at the speed of light have quite a bit of momentum? I think you need to revise the statement into a hypothetical "If a barn was strong enough to stop a pole moving at the speed of light the..." Reminds me of some of this newer science fiction where they figure out how to fire weapons at a ship traveling the speed of light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Trilogy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev |
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On Feb 18, 1:54*pm, Immortalist wrote:
On Feb 16, 1:26*am, Pentcho Valev wrote: Theoretically, the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment can be obtained by assuming that: (A) The speed of light varies with the speed of the light source (c'=c +v); the principle of relativity is correct; there are no miracles (length contraction, time dilation). (B) Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) is correct; the principle of relativity is correct; there are miracles (length contraction, time dilation). There is no reasonable third alternative. That is, Newton's emission theory of light with its constitutive equation c'=c+v is the ONLY alternative to special relativity. Moreover, the emission theory is TRUE *and special relativity FALSE unless one finds natural that a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: Wouldn't some pole traveling at the speed of light have quite a bit of momentum? 0.5mcc of kinetic energy with respect to something travelling at speed 0, and mc for the momentum bit. I think you need to revise the statement into a hypothetical "If a barn was strong enough to stop a pole moving at the speed of light the..." Reminds me of some of this newer science fiction where they figure out how to fire weapons at a ship traveling the speed of light. If you too are travelling at the speed of light, that battle will be like Trafalgar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Trilogy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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